Jenny Zhang on the Best American Poetry controversy and the experience of actually being a writer of color (which includes “racism, erasure, tokenization, self-devaluation, and the constant requests for free intellectual labor”). | BuzzFeed Books

Bill Clegg on the future of books, and the vulnerability of publishing, and developing a softer touch. | The Guardian

How a can of exploded green beans prompted Phillip Kelley to uncover and publish over 11,000 of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s letters. | Humanities Magazine

The sycophantic portrait of an intellectual bully: on James Boswell’s Life of Johnson, the world’s first and greatest biography. | Wall Street Journal

#TwitterFiction is now a thing, allowing authors both formal experimentation and engagement with teens. | The Atlantic